Boarding-house

Definition

board /bↄ:d/ n ၁။ [C, U] မာေတာင့္ေသာ အခ်ပ္အျပား။ ပ်ဥ္ခ်ပ္။ He had ripped up the carpet, leaving only the bare boards. See also CHIPBOARD, FLOORBOARD, HARDBOARD, SKIRTING-BOARD ၂။ [C] (esp in compounds) (က) (ပစၥည္းအျဖစ္ အသံုးျပဳသည့္) ပ်ဥ္ခ်ပ္၊ ခ်ပ္ျပား။ a notice-board ❍ He put the poster up on the board. ❍ a diving-board ❍ She dived from the top board. ❍ an ironing-board ❍ a breadboard (ie for cutting bread on) ❍ a circuit board ❍ The teacher wrote some sums on the board (ie the BLACKBOARD). See also DRAWING-BOARD (ခ) (ခ်ပ္ျပားေပၚ၌ အကြက္ခ်ထားေသာ) စစ္တုရင္ကြက္၊ က်ားကြက္ စသည္။ Let's play backgammon. Where's the board? ❍ a chess-board. ၃။ (ကုမၸဏီႏွင့္၊ အသင္းအဖြဲ႕၏) ႀကီးၾကပ္ကြပ္ကဲေရးအဖြဲ႕။ ဘုတ္အဖြဲ႕။ a prisoner's parole board ❍ She has a seat on/is on the board (of directors) of a large company. ❍ The board is/are unhappy about falling sales. ❍ ( US ) the board of education/elections/estimate ❍ attend a board meeting ❍ discussions at board level. ၄။ [U] ငွားရမ္းေနထိုင္ရာတြင္ ေပးရေသာ စားေသာက္စရိတ္ (ထမင္းလခ)။ He pays £80 a week (for) board and lodging. See also BED AND BOARD, FULL BOARD, HALF BOARD v ၁။ ~ sth (up) ပ်ဥ္ခင္းသည္။ ပ်ဥ္ကာသည္။ boarded floors/panels ❍ All the windows of the old house are now boarded up. ၂။ ~ at…/with sb ထမင္းလခေပးစားၿပီး ေနထိုင္သည္။ He boarded at my house/ with me until he found a flat. See also BOARD n ၄ ၃။ (သေဘၤာ၊ ရထား၊ ေလယာဥ္၊ ဘတ္စကား စသည္ေပၚ) တက္သည္။ Please board the plane immediately. See also ON BOARD ❏ (be) above board [ IDM ] (အထူးသျဖင့္ အေရာင္းအဝယ္ ကိစၥ) ႐ိုး႐ိုးရွင္းရွင္း။ Don't worry; the deal was completely above board. ❏ across the board [ IDM ] ၁။ (ကုမၸဏီ၊ လုပ္ငန္း၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းစသည္၌) တစ္ေယာက္မက်န္အားလံုး။ This firm needs radical changes across the board. ❍ an across-the-board wage increase. ၂။ ( US ) ျမင္းစသည္ ပ၊ ဒု၊ တ တစ္ခုခုခ်ိတ္လွ်င္ အေလ်ာ္ရသည့္ ေလာင္းနည္း။ ❏ be boarding [ IDM ] ခရီးသည္မ်ားတက္ၾကၿပီ။ Flight BA193 for Paris is now boarding. ❏ be on/tread the boards [ IDM ] ( dated or joc ) နာမည္ရသ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျပဇာတ္တြင္ ပါဝင္သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ သည္။ ❏ boarder n ၁။ သူတစ္ပါးအိမ္တြင္ လခေပး၍ ေနထိုင္သူ။ ၂။ အေဆာင္ေနေက်ာင္းသား။ ေက်ာင္းအိပ္ေက်ာင္းစား။ This school has 300 boarders and 150 day pupils. ❏ board-game n (စစ္တုရင္၊ က်ား စသည့္) အကြက္ခ် ထားေသာခ်ပ္ျပားျဖင့္ ကစားရသည့္ကစားနည္း။ ❏ boarding card n ေလယာဥ္၊ သေဘၤာေပၚ တက္ခြင့္ လက္မွတ္။ ❏ boarding-house n လူငွားလက္ခံသည့္အိမ္။ ❏ boarding-school n ေက်ာင္းအိပ္ေက်ာင္းစား လက္ခံသည့္ ေက်ာင္း။ Compare DAY-SCHOOL ❏ board out [ PHRV ] အျပင္ထြက္စားသည္။ ဆိုင္မွာ စားသည္။ ❏ board sb out [ PHRV ] (လုပ္ငန္းခြင္၊ ေက်ာင္း စသည္၏) ျပင္ပတြင္ ငွားေနသည္။ Many students have to be boarded out in the town. ❏ go by the board [ IDM ] စြန္႔သည္။ ပယ္သည္။ လ်စ္လ်ဴ႐ႈ သည္။ I'm afraid the new car will have to go by the board—we simply can't afford it. ❏ on board [ IDM ] (သေဘၤာ၊ ေလယာဥ္ စသည္) ေပၚမွာ၊ ေပၚသို႔။ Have the passengers gone on board yet? See also BOARD v ၃ ❏ take sth on board [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ တာဝန္ယူ လက္ခံသည္။ လက္သင့္ခံသည္။ I'm too busy to take any new jobs on board at the moment. ၂။ အျပည့္အဝ နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္သည္။

Examples

1. There’s a loose board in the bedroom floor.
2. Boards had been nailed across the broken window.
3. We use only recycled paper and board in our packaging.
4. The walls were lined with insulating board.
5. He put the bread on the board and began to slice it.
6. We wanted to play chess but I couldn’t find the board.
7. A group of surfers waxing their boards
8. The board said ‘Danger – Keep Out’.
9. The exam results were pinned up on the board.
10. The train station has an electronic board showing all departure times.
11. An advisory/editorial board
12. She was appointed to the board investigating lapses in airport security.
13. [board of trustees] : The hospital’s board of trustees voted for the merger.
14. [board of governors] : The board of governors has approved the appointment of a new head teacher.
15. [school board] : The local school board is trying to raise teachers’ salaries.
16. He sits on the board of several companies.
17. [board of directors] : She has recently been appointed to the board of directors.
18. [chairman of the board] : Fred’s father is chairman of the board.
19. [board and lodging] : She gets £70 a week plus board and lodging (=a place to stay and meals).
20. The president requested other countries to get on board with him on reducing poverty.